Obsession with Urban Church Planting
Last night I received a tweet and a re-tweet from a conference in Alabama on church planting. The tweet was from one of the sessions there on church planting and unfortunately tweets have no context in which to interpret them. So, I will discuss the tweet as it is. The tweet was about the speaker’s bewilderment over what he called ‘the urban obsession with church planting when half of the world’s population lives in rural areas.’
In response I tweeted: ‘Urban obsession counteracts a history of rural obsession that neglected half of the world’s peoples.’
My point and the point of any urban church planter is not that we should disregard rural and suburban church planting but that in recent history urban church planting has been a neglected focus of the church and a renewed emphasis on cities is needed. Continue reading “Obsession with Urban Church Planting”
